• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

A defect of decrease in TCP throughput can be investigated in asymmetric environment of different uplink and downlink bandwidths. Under two-way TCP traffic, the total link utilization is decreased by the successive injection of data packets in buffer. To solve these problems, terminal ACK filtering and packet scheduling mechanisms are introduced in this paper. ACK filtering eliminates the buffered ACK packets and transmits recent ACK packets in the uplink with limited bandwidth. Packet scheduling is the method of preventing 'clustering' and 'ack compression' states which are generated in the two-way TCP traffic. The guarantee of the data traffic in reverse TCP connection and the high throughput in forward TCP connection are investigated by simulation.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.21-27
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• 2008

TCP receivers deliver ACK packets to senders for reliable end-to-end transfer. When ACK packets are not transferred properly because of network congestion, the performance of TCP degrades. This paper proposes a reverse congestion warning mechanism and a congestion handling mechanism in heterogeneous networks with heavy background traffic in the backward direction. Help from TCP receivers or hardware such as routers and gateways other than the ACK packets themselves is not necessary. TCP senders compare the arrival intervals of ACK data passed from receivers and the difference in t imestamp values echoed by receivers. According to the simulation results using the NS-2 network simulator, the proposed scheme shows a performance elevation of 20% greater than Reno, 150% greater than New Reno, and 450% greater than Westwood, respectively, under heterogeneous networks and that the error rate of the radio link is 1% when the backward network is congested.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.53-56
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• 2015

In this paper, we want provide improved services with faster transmission, IEEE 802.11n was standardized. A-MPDU (Aggregation MAC Protocol Data UNIT) is a vital function of the IEEE 802.11n standard, which was proposed to improve transmission rate by reducing frame transmission overhead. In this paper, we show the problems of TCP retransmission with A-MPDU and propose a solution utilizing the property of TCP cumulative ACK. If the transmission of an MPDU subframe fails, A-MPDU mechanism allows selective re-transmission of failed MPDU subframe in the MAC layer. In TCP traffic transmission, however, a failed MPDU transmission causes TCP Duplicate ACK, which causes unnecessary TCP re-transmission. Furthermore, congestion control of TCP causes reduction in throughput. By supressing unnecessary duplicate ACKs the proposed mechanism reduces the overhead in transmitting redundant TCP ACKs, and transmitting only a HS-ACK with the highest sequence number. By using the RACK mechanism, through the simulation results, it was conrmed that the RACK mechanism increases up to 20% compared the conventional A-MPDU, at the same time, it tightly assures the fairness among TCP flows.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.653-660
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• 2013

This paper deals with the problem of unfairness among uplink TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) flows associated with frame aggregation employed in IEEE 802.11n WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks). When multiple stations have uplink TCP flows and transmit TCP data packets to an AP (Access Point), the AP has to compete for channel access with stations for the transmission of TCP ACK (acknowledgement) packets to the stations. Due to this contention-based channel access, TCP ACKs tend to be accumulated in the AP's downlink buffer. We show that the frame aggregation in the MAC (Medium Access Control) layer increases TCP ACK losses in the AP and leads to the serious unfair operation of TCP congestion control. To resolve this problem, we propose the TAC (TCP ACK Compression) mechanism operating at the top of the AP's interface queue. By exploiting the properties of cumulative TCP ACK and frame aggregation, TAC serves only the representative TCP ACK without serving redundant TCP ACKs. Therefore, TAC reduces queue occupancy and prevents ACK losses due to buffer overflow, which significantly contributes to fairness among uplink TCP flows. Also, TAC enhances the channel efficiency by not transmitting unnecessary TCP ACKs. The simulation results show that TAC tightly assures fairness under various network conditions while increasing the aggregate throughput, compared to the existing schemes.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.98-107
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• 2008

In mobile ad hoc networks, packet loss is unavoidable due to MAC contention, link failure or the inherent characteristics of wireless link. Since TCP relies on the timely reception of TCP ACK packets to progress the transmission of the TCP DATA packets, ACK loss obviously affects the performance due to two main problems: (a) Frequent occurrence of spurious retransmissions caused by timeout events and (b) impairment of the fast retransmit mechanism caused by the lack of a sufficient number of duplicate ACK packets. In particular, since most reactive routing protocols force the packets buffered over a path to be discarded while performing a route recovery, the performance degradation becomes more serious due to such ACK loss. In this paper, therefore, TCP with two piggybacking schemes (called TCP-pgy) is proposed in order to resolve the above-mentioned problems over reactive routing protocols. Through extensive simulations using the ns-2 simulator, we prove that our proposed schemes contribute to TCP performance improvements.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.1621-1624
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• 2000

양방향 TCP 연결에서는 ack compression 에 의하여 성능이 저하된다. 이를 해소하기 위한 여러 연구가 진행되고 있으나, TCP 및 인터넷의 사용환경이 워낙 다양하여 뚜렷한 해결책은 없는 상태이다. 특히 TCP의 종류 및 링크의 속도에 따른 ack compression에 의한 성능 저하는 다룰 수밖에 없다. 본 논문에서는 ns-2(network simulator 2)라는 툴(tool)을 사용하여 망의 성능을 측정한 결과로, 우선단방향과 양방향의 TCP 연결한 망의 성능을 망의 속도별, TCP 종류별로 비교한 후 ack compression을 적절히 처리하는 방법을 제안하고 제안한 방법에 관한 성능을 또한 망의 속도별, TCP 종류별로 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.605-607
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose another TCP Reset Attack. In the process of TCP's 3-way handshake, the receiver in the listen state receives segment including abnormal ACK number, then sends Reset to the sender (RFC 792). In this study, Attacker who monitors sender's packets sent in TCP initial connection sends segment including abnormal ACK number to the receiver before the sender sends normal ACK segment. The receiver received abnormal ACK number sends Reset to the sender. As a result, TCP connection is not established between the sender and the receiver.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.1654-1662
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• 2006

An ad hoc network is multi-hop network composed of radio links. and the transmission quality of a radio link is more unstable than that of a wired circuit. Packet loss thus occurs frequently in an ad hoc network, and the consequent connection failure results in a severe deterioration of TCP performance. TCP performance also deteriorates because of the collision of data packets and ACK packets in the radio channel. In this paper we study to improve the performance of the Mobile Ad-hoc network by using Delayed ACK algorithm with our proposed ODA(Ordering-Delayed ACK) method. The proposed ODA algorithm increases the number of the data packets orderly at the receiver side which is going to be applied for the Mobile Ad-hoc network. We accomplished a computer simulation using NS-2. From the simulation results, we find the proposed ODA algorithm obviously enlarge the channel capacity and improve the network performance at the situation of multi-hop of ad-hoc network than the existing Delayed ACK algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.355-368
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• 2006

This paper introduces a new split-TCP approach for improving TCP performance over IEEE 802.11-based wireless LANs. TCP over wireless LANs differently from wired networks is not aggressive, which is a fundamental reason for poor performance. Therefore, we propose TAS (TCP-Aware Sub-layer) to migigate this problem. Our scheme extends the split-connection approach that divides a connection into two different connections at a split point such as an access point (AP). Using TAS, a wireless node emulates TCP ACK packets using MAC ACK frames, instead of receiving real TCP ACK packets. We compared TAS with both normal TCP and I-TCP (Indirect TCP) by NS2 simulation. Results show that TAS achieves higher throughput, more fair resource allocation and, in power-saving mode, shorter delays.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.271-273
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 TCP 수신자가 지연 ACK 옵션(Delayed ACK Option)을 사용할 경우에 TCP 송신자에게 발생하는 성능 저하요인들을 분석하고 다음과 같은 해결책을 제시하였다. 먼저, 느린 시작 구간(Slow Start phase) 처음에 생기는 ACK 타임아웃은 큰 초기 윈도우(large initial window)또는 1-bit 마킹 기법을 통해 해결할 수 있다. 그리고, 느린 시작 구간과 혼잡 회피 구간(Congestion Avoidance phase)에서 혼잡 윈도우(cwnd)가 천천히 증가하는 문제는 적절히 바이트 카운팅 기법을 사용함으로써 해결할 수 있다. 마지막으로, 송신자가 버스트(burst)한 데이터를 네트웍에 발생시키는 문제는 트래픽을 평활(pacing)함으로써 해결할 수 있다. 또한 본 연구에서는 분석적 모델링을 통하여 TCP가 보내는 평균 전송률을 구하였으며 이 결과는 TCP에 친화한 전송률 기반 전송방법(TCP Friendly Rate Based Control)에 응용될 수 있을 것이다. 그리고 시뮬레이션을 통해서 제시한 방법의 성능이 향상됨을 확인하였다.